"Trouble seems to following Ash and his team around! A Quagsire takes the GS Ball. A young boy at a Pokémon Trainer school tries to catch Pikachu. And Team Rocket is up to their usual troublesome tricks. How will Ash ever get it together to go for his first Johto League badge?" -- Back cover.

"Hunters dedicate their lives to tracking down treasures, magical beasts, and even other people. But such pursuits require a license, and less than one in a hundred thousand can pass the grueling qualification exam. Those who do pass earn the right to call themselves Hunters. When country boy Gon decides to follow in his father's footsteps and become a legendary Hunter, he embarks across the perilous sea to take the Hunter Exam. After he finally finds...

"Most organizations fail to pay their employees properly -- not because they don't want to, but because they don't approach compensation with a plan. The compensation landscape is changing rapidly. If you don't pay your employees what they're worth, not only will your competitors leave you behind, but you'll also leave yourself open to legal, social, and political backlash. As an HR professional or manager, how do you navigate the confusing world...

When Russian skating coach Andrei Groshev offers twelve-year-old farm girl Claire a scholarship to train with the elite in Lake Placid, she encounters a world of mean girls on ice, where competition is everything.

A geeky, brilliant, cosmetic chemist, Anna Ellis, to win over Craig Kimball, the man of her dreams -- and her boss -- starts fake dating Craig's half-brother Marco, with whom Craig is super competitive, as an experiment in attraction, until her feelings for Marco become all-too real.

"A STEAM-centered, adorably illustrated picture book about Meg, a brilliant and creative boxitect who creates extraordinary things out of ordinary cardboard boxes.

When Flora leaves her family and their Maine potato farm for a tryout at the International Sports Academy, she struggles to hold her own through injuries, learning new positions, and contempt from other players.

When the Golden Nut Hunt race becomes a team event, will speedy Squirrel's competitive spirit take over, or will she learn how to be a team player?

What would happen if sixteen sharks met in a tournament? What if the jungle's fiercest creatures battled it out? Which dinosaur is the strongest of them all?

Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating.